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On Thursday, the star posted a rather disturbing selfie online: hair disheveled, skin glistening with sweat, old-man underpants yanked halfway down and right hand shoved down the front for a lazy fumble of the Franco fragiles.

“James Franco posts revealing underwear selfie” sounds kind of amazing in theory, doesn’t it? Why did he have to make it so … upsetting in practice?

Even more unsettling: Franco captioned the pic “JUMP ROPE.” What does this mean, James Franco? Is it some sort of coded reference to your wang, which you seem to be holding so tenderly as you gaze dead-eyed into the camera?

Given Franco’s well-documented love of performance art, perhaps this picture should be taken as a comment on other celebrities’ obsession with presenting themselves impeccably, even in supposedly “candid” social media posts?

Or maybe Franco’s just a sweaty oddball with a penchant for sticking his hands down his pants and documenting the results?

We may never know.

Less than an hour after posting the offending photo, Franco deleted it from his account.